WARC, the global authority on advertising and media effectiveness, just released its Effective Content Strategy Report 2018, outlining key content marketing themes from the world's most effective campaigns. Drawn from the winners of the Effective Content Strategy category of this year's international WARC Awards, the report identifies common themes from branded editorial-style content that can demonstrate a business outcome.

2018 was a big year for KPop, and with a new global record of 5.3 billion Tweets last year, Twitter continues to show that it's a great place to find out what's happening with KPop and to talk about it with KPop fans around the world. The top 20 countries that tweeted the most about KPop in 2018 have been:

In the classical marketing model, marketing is deemed to a funnel: at the beginning of the process (in the "awareness" stage) there are many branches competing for the attention of the customer, and this number is reduced through the different purchasing stages. Marketing is an action of "pushing" the brand through few touch points (for example through TV ads).

Customer Experience (CX) is in vogue, as Google hits for CX confirm, which have risen from 80 million in 2011 to over a billion in 2018, apart from the fact that CX has been mentioned in many studies as a top management issue, even though companies are still struggling with it. Nowadays, it is obviously not the price-performance ratio that is decisive, but the best price-experience ratio in a price range, and people no longer speak of digital transformation, but digitization in the sense of optimal integration of the digital and analog worlds.

Born in the mid-nineties and raised with smartphones, apps and social media, the Generation Z is cultivating an almost natural approach to modern technologies. In order to find out what attitudes and expectations, but also fears, this generation, that right now puses for the job market, is bringing to work, Dell Technologies conducted a study, revealing the following:

The availability of detailed real-time metrics is part of online marketing’s DNA. Email marketing is no exception. Suitable key performance indicators (KPIs) are as always essential tools for evaluating, controlling and optimizing the various online marketing channels.

Today, most shoppers are researching information on the internet - even in the business-to-business (B2B) context. Around 90% of all B2B purchases are already influenced by the website of the provider. In modern inbound marketing, B2B companies can significantly increase the effectiveness of marketing and sales through automated lead management, making it worthwhile to set up their own lead management for some simple reasons:

Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, announced the availability of Cloudera’s most powerful platform for data warehousing and machine learning - Cloudera Enterprise 6.0.

Cloudera also announced Cloudera Altus hybrid cloud innovations that unify control and governance of long-running and transient workloads on public clouds and data centers, managed by customers or as-a-service by Cloudera.

PHD announced the launch of Engine, a specialist unit built for automotive brand Volkswagen, which has been designed to capitalize on the volume of anonymous data being generated by consumers researching cars online. The new approach, which will roll out globally in Q4 this year, will ensure Volkswagen can deliver relevant content to consumers as they move through their digital journey to purchasing a vehicle.

Neural Technologies launched the Optimus Ecosystem, an integrated compilation of solutions spread across the areas of Revenue Management, Digital Integration and Advanced Automation & Analytics that allows to address effectively the challenges associated with digitizing business processes across the enterprise. According to Neural Technology, Optimus Ecosystem is the answer to a successful digital transformation journey.

Today’s challenge is no longer the availability of information but its abundance, bringing us the marketing issues we are dealing with now for decades. In all this noise, it is not only harder than ever to be found by customers, making things worse is the fact that the average attention span of today's media users has slipped below that of a goldfish.

Recently, the AI-powered social media marketing platform Socialbakers released its 2019 Social Media Trends Report for industry professionals and brands who want to work smarter in social media. The comprehensive report offers detailed information about the state of social media engagement and advertising, as well as emerging themes for the year ahead, besides diving into demographics and brand trends, advertising effectiveness, engagement best practices, and emerging trends involving influencer marketing, as well as privacy and security issues.

According to the Seeding Alliance's Native Advertising Study, the industry is in agreement that native advertising is an attractive source of revenue for publishers and advertisers through its integrated placement and scaling capabilities, especially for mobile Internet use. However, it also becomes ...

Simply having predictive models that suggest what might be done won’t be enough to stay ahead of the competition, Bill Frank states in his article “Let algorithms decide – and act – for your company”, part of the Harvard Business Review “Predictive Analytics in Pr ...

In the quest to become data-driven, companies are increasingly investing in Business Intelligence (BI) software to gain a competitive advantage. Yet, the insights generated by those tools are mostly fueled by data from within a company’s walls, instead of the real-time market signals found ext ...

Appier a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced the launch of AIQUA, a proactive marketing automation platform that helps marketers harness the power of AI to preemptively understand and segment their audience, and to engage users with AI-based messages across channels.

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The availability of detailed real-time metrics is part of online marketing’s DNA. Email marketing is no exception. Suitable key performance indicators (KPIs) are as always essential tools for evaluating, controlling and optimizing the various online marketing channels.

There is hardly an online shop that has not fallen for at least one of the fancy tricks of a cheater’s line and suffered consequently financial loss. One way to reliably detect fraud is classic identification. This helps online shops to distinguish real people with honest buying and paying intentions from fraudsters.

Xaxis, GroupM’s programmatic media arm, surveyed around 5,000 digital media marketers across 16 markets to find out how satisfied marketers around the world were with their existing methods of measuring the success of digital display campaigns - especially in terms of how they deliver against their strategic business and marketing goals.

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